Carolina Caetano

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. My research interests are in Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Health Economics and Child Development.

Contact


Email: carol.caetano@uga.edu
Address: C401 Amos Hall, 610 S. Lumpkin St., Athens, GA, 30602
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Publications



The Effect of Maternal Labor Supply on Children: Evidence from Bunching, with Gregorio Caetano, Eric Nielsen and Viviane Sanfelice. Paper. Forthcoming at Journal of Labor Economics.

Are Children Spending Too Much Time on Enrichment Activities? with Gregorio Caetano and Eric Nielsen. Paper, slides. Forthcoming at Economics of Education Review. Same version with appendix here.

Bunching Designs: A guide to practice, with Marinho Bertanha, Hugo Jales, and Nathan Seegert. Paper. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics.

Correcting for Endogeneity in Models with Bunching, with Gregorio Caetano and Eric Nielsen. Paper, Same version with Appendix, slides, code. Forthcoming at Journal of Business & Economic Statistics.

Regression Discontinuity Design with Multivalued Treatments, with Gregorio Caetano and Juan Carlos Escanciano. Paper, slides, code. Journal of Applied Econometrics, pp. 1-17 (2023). Version with Appendix.

Identifying multiple marginal effects with a single instrument, with Juan Carlos Escanciano, Econometric Theory, 2021, 37(3), pp.464-494. Paper, informal summary, code, slides.

A discontinuity test for identification in triangular nonseparable models, with Christoph Rothe and Nese Yildiz, Journal of Econometrics, v. 193(1), 2016. Paper, informal summary, slides.

A test of exogeneity without instrumental variables in models with bunching, Econometrica, v. 83(4), 2015. Paper, online appendix (details about the estimator and the simulations), code, replication files, informal summary, slides.


Working Papers


Robust Identification in Regression Discontinuity Designs with Covariates, with Gregorio Caetano and Juan Carlos Escanciano. R&R at Review of Economics and Statistics.

Difference-in-Differences when Parallel Trends Holds Conditional on Covariates, with Brantly Callaway. R&R at Review of Economics and Statistics.

Agricultural Extension Effectiveness in Ethiopia: Evidence from Bunching, with G. Dureti, G. Caetano, M. Tabe-Ojong, S. Di Falco and D. Wuepper. R&R at American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

A Dummy Test of Causal Identification in Models with Bunching, with Gregorio Caetano, Hao Fe and Eric Nielsen.

Household Chores and the Gender Gap in Child Development: Evidence from Bunching, with Gregorio Caetano and Kelly Santos.

Identification of Causal Effects with a Bunching Design, with Gregorio Caetano, Leonard Goff and Eric Nielsen.


Resting Papers



Smoking Across Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes, with Kenneth Chay and Umair Khalil.


Teaching Notes and Slides


Graduate Econometrics: causal identification and estimation

1. Fundaments of Causal Inference, slides
2. Review of OLS, slides
3. Review of the Linear Model, slides
4. Problems with the Linear Model, slides
5. Instrumental Variable Methods, slides
6. Potential Outcomes Model, slides
7. Regression Discontinuity Design, slides
8. Panel Data Models, slides
9. Statistical Learning

Nonparametric Econometrics

1. Kernel Based Methods
2. Bandwidth choice, Inference and Local Polynomial
3. Sieve Based Methods, Splines
4. Wavelets, Choice of Series Length, and Inference
5. Semi-parametric Models: Partially Linear, Additive, Varying Coefficients, Single Index
6. Examples: Nonparametric IV, Inverse Prob. Weighted Propensity Score, RDD

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